Quotes about Public

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

A brand is no longer what it tells consumers it is—it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Disgust at collective killing is of very recent date and should not be over-estimated. Today everyone takes part in public executions through the newspapers. Like everything else, however, it is more comfortable than it was. We sit peacefully at home and, out of a hundred details, can choose those to linger over which offer a special thrill. We only applaud when everything is over and there is no feeling of guilty connivance to spoil our pleasure.

As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.

If you let people own their land, they take care of it. That's why privately owned land is always taken care of, and the parks look like cesspools. Nobody takes care of what everybody owns.